Brush-cleaner.



E. B. STANLEY. BRUSH CLEANER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 13, 1912.

1,069,350, I Patented Aug.'5, 1913.

ETHHN B. STANLEY.

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ETl-IAN B. STANLEY, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

BRUSH-CLEANER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 5,1913.

Application filed January 13, 1912. Serial No. 671,135.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ETHAN B. STANLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at 2540 Madison road, Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Brush-Cleaners, of which the following is a specification.

My improvement relates to sanitary brush cleaners, and more particularly to a class employing mechanical cleaning means, to-

gether with sprays of hot water and steam under pressure, said hot water and steam being medicated if desired, together with a drying arrangement.

The object is to provide a simple and effective cleaning device for hair brushes, said device to form a part of the equipment of a barber or hair dressing establishment.

The device consists, broadly speaking, of a metal housing containing a roller yield ably and revolubly mounted beneath a comb, said comb being carried by a hollow perfol'ated metal tubing, pivotally mounted and being connected with flushing means, to gether with a separate combcleaning and flushing means, and asuitable drier.

The form of my device here shown and described is at present preferred, but I wish it understood that I do not limit myself to this one form. I claim the right to modify the arrangement, size, material used, etc.. as long as I do not depart from the spirit of the device as set forth in the claim herewith attached.

In the drawings forming a part of this applicationFigure l is a plan view. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of the interior mechanism taken on the line AB of Fig. 1, the housing thereof being partly broken away. Fig. 3 is a detail of the roller and comb portion partly in section. Fig. 4: is a plan view of the radiator or drier. Fig. 5 is a sectional View of the same.

In the preferred form of my device, de scribed specifically, and the parts referred to numerically, l is a housing having openings 2 and 3, in which housing is yieldably and revolubly-mounted a roller 4, upon a spindle 5; said spindle being carried by plungers 6 and 7, to which are attached com- A comb 10 is mounted above the roller and parallel to the same in a hollow tube 11, the said tube being perforated as shown near where the comb teeth enter, the whole being revolubiy mounted in bearings 12 and 13 and being further provided with a collar 14 havin' shoulders 15 and 16 cooperating with a limiting pin 17. The tube 11 is closed at the end 18 and connected to a supply tube 19v An ordinary commercial four-way fitting 20 is disposed between tubes 19 and 25, and the remaining two right angle openings in the said fitting carry short pieces of perforated tubing 21 and 22 closed at their far ends and located directly over a stiff bristled brush 23, the said brush being mounted on suitable supports 24. The supply pipe passes through a hollow fluted radiating means 26. At the rear end of the lowest point of the a supporting means 28 is provided for the radiator.

The operation is as follows: The brush is inserted between the comb and the roller with the back resting upon the latter. Further inward movement causes the comb to descend to the dotted position shown in the drawing and the bristles of the brush to pass through the comb, thus removing the foreign matter from the brush and depositing the same on the outside of the comb. Vhen the brush has been pushed in far enough to allow all the bristles to come in contact with the comb, and it is being withdrawn, the comb is pushed up to the disengaging position (as shown in full lines in the drawing) by the removal of the brush, and the foreign matter remaining in the comb is washed away by water spray flowing through the openings in the tubing in which the comb is mounted. (This occupies but a few seconds.) The brush may be inserted and withdrawn several times, being flushed itself while passing through the comb, and may then be dried sutficiently upon the radiator at the side of the device, by several quick rubs over its fluted surface. The hair comb may be cleaned by passing it over the stiff brush located in the device while the hot water is flowing from the sprinkler system located directly over the same.

' By reason of the yieldable spring mountings of the roller brushes of any thickness may be cleaned and the prongs of the comb allowed to sink to the inner surface of the back of the brush, thus eliminating the waste or foreign matter in the brush.

housing is a drain pipe 27, while H11 Vll'l 51 I claim A brush cleaner consisting of a l'evoluble 'ieldably mounted roller, :1 comb disposed above and parallel to the same, a hollow perforated tube revolubly mounted and cari'ylng the swinging movement of the said comb and tube, flushlng means connected to the sand Copies of t thus described my improvement,

being located in a suitable housing, all as and for the purpose shown.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ETHAN B. STANLEY. Witnesses LEONARD S. SMITH, WILLIAM D. JOHNSON.

said comb, means for limiting the his patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0.

perforated comb carrying tube the whole 

